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NEW DELHI: The Central Boardof Secondary Education(CBSE) wants
all 15,000 af-filiated schools to celebratethe Sanskrit Week in
thesecond week of August in thehope that this will help
inrevitalising the use of sim-ple Sanskrit among theyouth.
In a circular issued onJune 30 to the schools, evento those
overseas and in ar-eas where Sanskrit has noroots, the Board said:
TheCBSE is committed to pro-moting the teaching andlearning of
Sanskrit themother of all languages. San-skrit and Indian culture
areintertwined as most of theindigenous knowledge isavailable in
this language.
A cursory look at circularsissued by the CBSE in thepast few
years makes it clearthat this is a first.Not mandatory: Page 12
CBSE forSanskrit Weekfete in schoolsAnita Joshua
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BRIEFLY
Raju barredMUMBAI: SEBI on Tuesdaybarred the erstwhile
SatyamComputers ex-chairman, B.Ramalinga Raju, and itsformer
officials fromaccessing the securitiesmarket for 14 years. Page
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BEIJING: Chinas President XiJinping on Tuesday invitedPrime
Minister NarendraModi to visit China in No-vember and called for a
ne-gotiated resolution to theboundary dispute at an
early date as the two leadersheld their first ever meetingin
Brazil.
In Fortaleza to attend theBRICS Summit, Mr. Modiand Mr. Xi met
for 80 min-utes extending beyond thescheduled 40 minutes inwhat was
described by offi-cials as a substantive andfrank discussion. Mr.
Moditermed the meeting veryfruitful and said on Twitterthat a wide
range of issueshad been discussed.
Mr. Xi said he was lookingforward to his Septembervisit to
India, and also wel-comed Mr. Modi to visit Chi-na in November
whenBeijing will host the APECleaders meeting. It is pos-sible that
Mr. Modi may visitBeijing in December. TheChinese President said
hewas willing to work with Mr.
Modi to constantly enhancethe China-India strategicand
cooperative partnershipto a higher level and jointlysafeguard our
strategic peri-od of opportunities. Bothcountries, he said, were
longlasting strategic and cooper-ative partners, rather thanrivals.
If the two countriesspeak in one voice, the wholeworld will
attentively listen;
if the two countries joinhand in hand, the wholeworld will
closely watch, hesaid. Mr. Xi called for a ne-gotiated solution to
the bor-der issues at an early date,says the Xinhua news
agen-cy.
Mr. Modi said there was a
need for finding a solutionand maintaining peace onthe borderHe
made the pointthat incidents on the bordershould not
underminerelations.
Ananth Krishnan
PM calls for UNSC, IMF reformXi invites Modi, calls forearly
border settlement
NEW DELHI: As Parliament wit-nessed disruptions for the sec-ond
consecutive day over anIndian journalists meetingwith terror
mastermind HafizSaeed, External Affairs Minis-ter Sushma Swaraj on
Tuesdaycondemned the meeting andsaid the government had
sought a report on the engage-ments of the journalist in
Pa-kistan during his three-weekstay there.
The Congress, which firstraised the issue on Monday,went on the
offensive on Tues-day, disrupting the Lok Sabharepeatedly seeking
adjourn-ment of question hour and anexplanation on Ved
PratapVaidiks meeting with JuDchief Hafiz Saeed.
Congressvice-president Rahul Gandhieven described Mr. Vaidik asan
RSS man while talking to
journalists outsideParliament.
A brief statement by Ms.Swaraj in the Lok Sabha andsubsequently
in the Rajya Sab-ha, asserting that the govern-ment had nothing to
do withthe meeting, failed to satisfythe elders.
Leader of the Opposition inthe Rajya Sabha Ghulam NabiAzad
wanted the Minister to
explain why the governmentremained silent for so manydays and
whether it had re-ceived any report from eitherthe Indian mission
in Pakistanor intelligence agencies on theevent.
(With additional re-porting by Smita Gupta)
Weve nothing to do withVaidik-Saeed meet: govt.Congress goes on
offensive; Rahul says he is RSS man
B. Muralidhar Reddy &Gargi Parsai
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man Resource DevelopmentMinistry was preoccupiedwith the
stand-off betweenthe UGC and Delhi Universi-ty over the Four-Year
Un-dergraduate Programme.
A blogger for several yearsnow, Prof. Rao, who was for-mer Head
of the Departmentof History and TourismManagement, Kakatiya
Uni-versity, articulated his worldview in theChairpersons Di-
NEW DELHI: Eminent historianRomila Thapars articlequestioning
the academiccredentials of the new Chair-man of the Indian Council
ofHistorical Research (ICHR),Yellapragada SudershanRao, has brought
the spot-light back on the institutionthat was at the centre of
thesaffronisation debate duringthe first National Democrat-ic
Alliance government.
The government has ze-roed in on a man few in his-tory circles
have heard of.The appointment was madequietly in the week the
Hu-
ary posted on the ICHRwebsite.
Stating that he owed ev-erything to PujyaSri, Maha-mahopadhyaya,
Dr. K.Sivananda Murtyji, Prof.Rao noted that researchsponsored and
conducted bythe ICHR is guided by mod-ern schools of
historiogra-phy of the West. Though hehas stated that he was
neveran RSS member, historianslike D.N. Jha insist he sharesthe
Sanghs view in main-taining that Indian intellec-tual and
spiritualachievements have noparallel.Questions over Mahabharata
date: Page 13
Anita Joshua
Choice of ICHR chiefreignites saffronisation debate
The government has
zeroed in on a man fewin history circles haveheard of
NEW DELHI:A young Spanish
tourist was allegedlymolested by a man atLodhi Gardens here
onSunday.
According to the police,the accused, 24-year-oldGiri, molested
the womanin full public view,grabbing her arm andmisbehaving with
her.
He has been arrested.The accused not only
misbehaved with her for along time but also warnedher against
raising hervoice. However, thewoman cried out for helpand soon
people taking astroll in the park came toher rescue and also
alertedthe police, said a policeofficer.
A Police Control Roomteam reached the spot andtook the accused
to theTughlak Road policestation where a case ofmolestation was
registeredagainst him.
The accused, a residentof Badarpur, works as ahouse-keeping
staff at a
five-star hotel.According to the police,he was in an
inebriatedstate at the time of theincident.
A medical examinationlater confirmed thepresence of alcohol in
hisblood.
The victim had come toDelhi with her femalefriend on a tourist
visa onJuly 6. After a trip to Agraand nearby places, she
hadreached Delhi on Sunday.
After the recent case , inwhich a Dutch woman wasbrutally raped
at StateEntry Road nearConnaught Place, thisincident has again
raisedquestions over thepresence of Tourist Policein Delhi.
Personnel fromthe Tourist Police aresupposed to be present inplaces
frequented bytourists, Lodhi Gardenbeing one of them.
Spanish woman molestedKritika Sharma
LUCKNOW:A gang-rape victimskin, demanding action againstthe
accused, resorted to vio-lence and arson and blockedthe
Aligarh-Etah highway bylying on the road at Sikandra-rau in Hathras
district of Ut-tar Pradesh on Tuesday.
The 22-year-old marriedwoman was allegedly gang-raped by some
youths belong-ing to her native place in Nau-rangabad area and
later sether on fire.
The victim, with 80 percent burns, died on her way toAligarh
Medical College onMonday.
The police, however,claimed that the woman com-mitted suicide.
Four personswere named in the FIR filed atthe Sikandrarau police
sta-tion. Two accused Vakil andBhullan have been arrested
while two others areabsconding.
State Inspector General
(Law and Order) AmrendraKumar Sengar told reportersthat the
woman with burn in-juries was brought to theHathras District
Hospital byher mother.
Quoting the victims moth-er, the I-G said the girl wasgang-raped
in Naurangabadand she tried to commit sui-cide by torching herself.
Shewas referred to Aligarh Med-
ical College, but died on herway to hospital, Mr.
Sengarsaid.
Special Correspondent
Violence in Hathras afterdeath of gang-rape victim
A truck set ablaze inHathras on Tuesday.
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Collegium stands byJustice ManjunathNEW DELHI: The Supreme
Court collegium onTuesday stood firm onelevating Karnataka
HighCourt Justice K.L.Manjunath as Chief Justiceof the Punjab and
HaryanaHigh Court. Page 12
FALL OF ACHINESE STARPAGE 14
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NEW DELHI: The IndianHigh Commission inIslamabad has repliedto
External AffairsMinister SushmaSwaraj over the visit of
journalist V.P. Vaidikto Pakistan, The Hinduhas learnt.
According tosources, the High
Commission claimed ithad no knowledge ofMr. Vaidiks travelplans
after he attendeda track-II meeting ofparliamentarians and
journalists inIslamabad on June14-16. The meeting wasorganised
by thinktank, The RegionalPeace Institute.
In an interview,however, Mr. Vaidikclaimed he had paid forhis
own trip toPakistan. Sources saidthe High Commissionsreport was
received onTuesday evening bythe Ministry.
Ms. Swaraj hadasked the HighCommission to file thereport after
facing afurore in Parliamentfor two days over Mr.
Vaidiks self-publicisedmeeting with Mr.Saeed.
No knowledgeof Vaidiksplans: HighCommissionSuhasini Haidar
continued and instead, theDistrict-level Health Surveyshould be
expanded to covernutrition data, official sourc-es told The
Hindu.
Following protests, a deci-sion was taken to stick withthe
NFHS.
Essentially, the situationwe have is that between2004-05 and
2014-15, a peri-od in which India has prob-ably experienced
morechange than ever before asconsumption data seem toindicate, we
have no idea
what happened with malnu-trition, a senior official atthe India
office of an interna-tional aid agency told TheHindu, asking that
the orga-nisation not be named as itworks with the
government.Results to be out in 2015: Page 12
NEW DELHI: When the globalHuman Development Re-port, 2014, is
released laterthis month, statistics fromthe new
Multi-dimensionalPoverty Index will be part ofit for the fourth
time.
For India, however, thesenumbers will be almost mea-ningless as
a widening gap inits official health statisticsundermines both
domesticand global health monitoringefforts.
Indias main source of de-tailed health statistics is
thenow-delayed National Fam-ily Health Survey (NFHS).Fieldwork on
the next roundof survey should have begunin 2010. However, some
inthe Ministry were of the viewthat the NFHS should be dis-
Delayed NFHS derails health monitoringRukmini S.
NEW DELHI: The U.N. SecurityCouncil and the IMF are inneed of
urgent reform,said Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi at the beginningof
the BRICS Summit meet-ing in Fortaleza, Brazil.
With his remarks, Mr. Modiset the course for a strongpolitical
statement at thesummit where he ad-dressed Brazilian PresidentDilma
Rousseff, Russian
President Vladimir Putin,Chinese President Xi Jinp-ing and South
African Pres-ident Jacob Zuma in hisfirst multilateral engage-ment.
Calling on the Securi-ty Council and the IMF torecognise and
representground realities, Mr. Mo-
di said, Corrective actionmust begin with the reformof
institutions of global gov-ernance. This has been onthe BRICS
agenda since itsinception.
Mr. Modi spoke even asthe leaders of BRICS coun-tries ironed out
their differ-ences over theannouncement of theBRICS bank and the
con-tingent reserve fund. Thetwo economic initiativesare the major
announce-ments of the Fortaleza dec-laration. Shanghai won outas
the location for the head-quarters for the BRICSbank, but Indian
officialsclaimed victory over the keyissues of equal sharehold-ing
for all BRICS members.India would assume thefirst presidency of the
bank,which would be named, as
per the Indian suggestion,the New DevelopmentBank.
Mr. Modi also pitched fora common outlook on glob-al crises such
as the conflictin Israel, Syria and Iraq, andcalled for BRICS
countriesto help Afghanistan fightthe forces of terrorism.
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Suhasini Haidar
Bank in Shanghai, butpresidency for India
